The Hateful Eight - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[jessie]

The film was nominated for three Golden Globes almost a month before its wide release--Best Screenplay for Quentin Tarantino, Best Original Score for Ennio Morricone, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Jennifer Jason Leigh.

[jeffrey]

The "You gotta hang mean bastards" quote is a reference to "Sonny" Shin'ichi Chiba's The Street Fighter (1974).

[darrell]

Misty Upham originally had a part in Django Unchained (2012) as a character named "Minny" who owned the bar in which Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx drink in the film. The role was deleted, and eventually the character showed up in this film, also owning a type of public house. After Upham's death, the role was kept in the film, as an homage to her, but was re-cast.

[alyssa]

Quentin Tarantino: [testicles] This is Tarantino's fourth (and third in a row) movie where a character is shot in the testicles.

[ella]

After the script leaked online, Writer and Director Quentin Tarantino did not want to make this movie. However, after they did a brief reading of the script in Los Angeles, the cast was stunned and got excited for the film, and with Samuel L. Jackson persuading him to do this movie, Tarantino accepted.

[elmer]

When Daisy and John Ruth first enter the haberdashery, Oswaldo looks over to Joe Gage multiple times before following Ruth around. Oswaldo directs Ruth to the coffee beans and, while his back is turned, Oswaldo is prepared to shoot him. Daisy notices and steps between the two to stop Oswaldo from shooting. She then covertly mentions that there are more people outside. All of this is done to await a better time for the gang to kill Ruth and the bystanders.

[charlie]

According to the earliest draft of the script, the scene where Major Warren interrogates Bob, Oswaldo, and Joe Gage about working with Daisy, and poisoning the coffee, was originally supposed to be more brutal and disturbing than what was shown on film. Instead of simply threatening to pour the rest of the poisoned coffee down Daisy's throat, Warren was written to violently beat her, hold her at gunpoint, and then prepares to shoot her in the head, until Joe Gage finally intervenes. This scene also had more dialogue.